JAY TRUDE KERN

CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Private services have been held for Jay Trude Kern, 81, a lawyer, former assistant city corporation counsel and member of two old Chicago families. Mr. Kern died last Thursday in his home in the Hyde Park neighborhood. Mr. Kern`s father, Jacob J., was a Democratic Party leader in the 1890s who served as Cook County state`s attorney and Chicago city attorney, then an elective office. Mr. Kern`s maternal grandfather was Alfred S. Trude, a lawyer for The Tribune who served as city attorney when Joseph Medill, former proprietor and editor of The Tribune, was Chicago`s mayor in the 1870s. An uncle, Daniel Trude, was a Cook County Circuit Court judge. Mr. Kern is survived by his wife, R. Melville; a brother; and a sister.